Oh my, what’s that thing? I tried nostr earlier this year after reading about their tech side and finding it interesting, but then I met their human side and… it was shocking (I lack words to properly explain the feeling). Most posts were (in order of cryptocurrency praising like it’s 2015, bashing on leftism, some weird humor I didn’t understand (maybe it was better not to understand), anti-government stuff, racist memes and a (maybe lost) user that posted some beautiful photos they took as amaetur photography practice. I literally stopped scrolling and uninstalled it when I saw a post claiming that pasteurizing milk is a genocide and an act from the government against us (the other users were even endorsing it!)
iloveDigit@piefed.social 21 hours ago
There are no bans on nostr. And we desperately need more antifa to drown out the 3 white supremacists we can’t ban
morto@piefed.social 20 hours ago
iloveDigit@piefed.social 20 hours ago
Definitely a good technology overrun with cultists. Better content curation tools & more users will fix it
Heads up, I sometimes post screenshots of replies like this as examples of how nostr looks to outsiders, because those cultists act confused about why no one joins
morto@piefed.social 19 hours ago
Did you say screenshot? I better fix the typing errors and dress my finest clothes!
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
You think those are gonna convince anyone?
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
It’s a shame that Nostr’s brand is tainted by its community in a lot of people’s eyes, there’s a lot to like about it as a protocol and as a free software project that is independent from that stuff.
OpenStars@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Tbh I think of Lemmy in the same terms. Like, people contemplating coming here from e.g. Reddit could block all the anti-Western propaganda (e.g. calling for actual murder against us), and find some pools of content that are halfway worthwhile… but like, why would they bother? For the ideological purity of not contributing to enshittification? Anyone who thinks that way is already here though.
Whether facing “leftist” tankies on Lemmy or “conservative” right-wingers on Nostr, mainstream non-technical normie users are going to just nope right out of either.
MITM0@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
What’s stoping you from creating leftist hotspots in Nostr ?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
The fundamental architectural decisions are stupid in precisely the way all libertarian projects are and make healthy behavior maladaptive for potentially toxic agents that might otherwise remain relatively innocous.
artyom@piefed.social 5 hours ago
You have a bunch of white supremacists because there are no bans…
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
What authority consistently bans white supremacists at scale?
White supremacists are the eternal allies of the very concept of authority.
iloveDigit@piefed.social 4 hours ago
Except we can do shit about it, because there are no bans. That’s what you have backwards and that’s how they trick you into letting them increasingly take ownership of every discussion space in society
artyom@piefed.social 4 hours ago
Well go on then…